Egg wins international competition at Istanbul festival

20 April, 2008
| By Dan Fainaru

The top honors in the international competition of this year's Istanbul Film Festival have gone to Egg (Yumurta) by local film-maker Semih Kaplanoglu, the story of a poet returning to his mother's home in the country after her death.Kaplanoglu's picture, which opened last year in Cannes' DirectorsFortnight, is the third part of a planned trilogy to be shot backwards.The second installment, Milk, ...

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